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The 2015 All Things Plants Photo Contest: Specific Plants: Cacti and Succulents: Photo by Ursula
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Specific Plants: Cacti and Succulents category
of the The 2015 All Things Plants Photo Contest.
Ursula added a caption:
Water Buffalo in Opuntia at Amakhala, SA
dirtdorphins
Dec 7, 2015 9:58 PM CST
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Name: Dirt
(Zone 5b)
Love this one Ursula!
I just had to go back and gaze at the water buffalo several times
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gg5
Dec 8, 2015 12:10 AM CST
Name: Greg Colucci
Seattle WA (Zone 8b)
I kept thinking poor cow wandered into the wrong field!
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webesemps
Dec 8, 2015 1:14 AM CST
Name: Bev
Salem OR (Zone 8a)
This was one of my favorites in that it had interesting animal and interesting colored plants together!
Figurative Realism Art
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Post #1002874 (3)
Ursula
Dec 8, 2015 7:55 AM CST
Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a
Thanks so much!
People in that region of South Africa plant the Opuntia to eat themselves, but there actually was a bunch of Water Buffalo plundering them. They are supposedly not easily chased away.
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webesemps
Dec 8, 2015 11:59 AM CST
Name: Bev
Salem OR (Zone 8a)
Thanks Ursula for the extra info to put your photo in life perspective...
Figurative Realism Art
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Post #1003142 (5)
gg5
Dec 8, 2015 2:06 PM CST
Name: Greg Colucci
Seattle WA (Zone 8b)
Yes that is cool, now I want to see if opuntia are native there or introduced
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Ursula
Dec 8, 2015 6:03 PM CST
Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a
Greg, they are introduced!
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